Guava Cheese Flan Food

GUAVA AND CHEESE FLAN (FLAN DE GUAYABA Y QUESO)

Steps:

• To prepare the caramel, put 1 cup of sugar in a small pot with 1/2 cup of water. Bring to a boil over high heat. Stir once and reduce the heat to medium and cook about 5 minutes or until the syrup turns a caramel color.
• Immediately pour an equal amount of the caramel into each ramekin or any oven proof mold you want to use. Swirl each dish to coat the base with the caramel, work fast as the caramel will harden quickly as it cools. Place all the ramekins in a large roasting pan and set aside.
• Preheat the oven to 350° F.
• In a blender add the eggs, condensed milk, evaporated milk, cream cheese, guava paste and vanilla extract and blend until smooth.
• Carefully pour an equal amount of the flan mixture into the caramelized ramekins in the roasting pan. Then add hot water to the roasting pan, not to the ramekins, until the water comes half way up the sides of the ramekins.
• Place the roasting pan in the oven and bake for 1 hour or until a knife inserted in the center of the flan comes out clean.
• Remove from the roasting pan and cool for at least 30 minutes. Then cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
• To serve, carefully run a knife around the edge of the ramekin, cover with a serving plate, flip it over and gently remove the ramekin allowing the caramel run over the sides.

LIME & CREAM CHEESE FLAN WITH GUAVA SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Blend first 3 ingredients in blender until smooth. Add eggs, vanilla and lime zest; blend until combined. Pour into 9-inch round pan.
• Place filled pan in larger shallow pan. Add enough water to larger pan to come halfway up side of smaller pan.
• Bake 50 min. to 1 hour or until knife inserted in center of flan comes out clean. Cool in water-filled pan. Carefully transfer flan from pan of hot water to wire rack. Cool flan completely.
• Refrigerate flan 4 hours. Meanwhile, bring guava pulp and sugar just to boil in saucepan; cook on medium-low heat 15 min. or until thickened, stirring frequently. Cool completely, then refrigerate until ready to use.
• Serve flan topped with guava sauce.

GUAVA FLAN

Steps:

• PREHEAT oven to 350°F Place 1 cup of the sugar in small heavy saucepan; cook on medium heat until sugar is melted and deep golden brown, stirring constantly with wooden spoon. This should take about 10 minutes. Remove from heat. Immediately pour into 9-inch round baking pan; tilt pan to evenly cover bottom of pan with syrup. Set aside.
• PLACE milk and cream cheese in blender; cover. Blend until smooth. Add remaining 1 cup sugar, the eggs, vanilla and salt; cover. Blend just until smooth; add guava paste and pour into prepared baking pan. ( I found that sprinkling the cubes of guava paste across the top of the raw custard helped to keep them from globbing up in the middle- Next time I might try blending the guava paste in blender with the rest of the ingredients) Place filled baking pan in larger baking pan; add enough hot water to larger pan to come halfway up side of smaller pan.
• BAKE 50 minute to 1 hour or until knife inserted near center comes out clean. Cool. Carefully remove flan from water. Cool on wire rack.
• REFRIGERATE several hours or unti chilled. When ready to serve, invert pan onto serving plate to unmold flan. (Some of the guava cubes stuck to the caramel and I just took them off with a fork and stuck them back in the top of the flan where they came from!) Store any leftovers in refrigerator.

GUAVA CHEESE FLAN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F
• Place sugar and water in 9-inch round cake pan.
• Stir until sugar is slightly dissolved.
• Place pan on stove on medium heat.
• Cook sugar about 10 minutes, without stirring, until sugar turns a golden to golden brown color.
• Use oven mitts to swirl pan, coating bottom and sides with caramel.
• Place pan on wire rack to cool and harden caramel slightly.
• Meanwhile, place remaining ingredients in blender container; cover.
• Blend until smooth.
• Pour mixture over cooled and hardened caramel in pan.
• Cover with foil.
• Place a large shallow baking pan in oven.
• Place cake pan in baking pan.
• Carefully pour hot water into baking pan so it comes halfway up side of cake pan.
• Bake 1 hour or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.
• Remove cake pan from water bath.
• Cool on wire rack.
• Carefully loosen sides of custard from pan with a knife.
• Cover and refrigerate 3 hours or until chilled.
• May be chilled overnight.
• To unmold, invert pan onto a large shallow plate or pie dish.
• Garnish with mango and kiwi slices, if desired.
• *Guava paste is available in the international aisle of grocery store, it is sold in bars.

GUAVA CUSTARD/FLAN

Steps:

• Make sure all ingredients are room temperature!
• Preheat oven at 350 degrees.
• Place brown sugar, water and lemon juice on a small pot andd cook at medium heat until sugar changes to golden brown.
• *Don't skip the lemon juice, it will prevent lumps on the caramel*.
• Cover a 9-inch round cake pan with caramel; tilt and swirl to cover bottom and sides.
• Let cool aside.
• Mix eggs, guava paste, cream cheese and the rest of the ingredients in blender. Mix until smooth.
• Once caramel is hard or a bit cracked; pour the mixture into pan.
• *Tap pan into the counter to remove air bubbles.*.
• Place mixture pan into a larger shallow pan and fill the larger pan with hot water. Make sure it comes about halfway of the mixture pan.
• *DO NOT COVER*.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 50 minutes to 1 hour.
• Flan will be done when knife inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Remove from oven, put on a cool rack for about 2 hours.
• Cover and refrigerate.
• To serve, insert thin knife around the edges of the flan, cover with a shallow dish and flip pan over.